with intention

a good friend of mine once wrote:: I don't think communion is a ritual. I don't take it when it's treated like one. I believe I will be held accountable for it, if I did.
last Sunday I was asked to help serve the eucharist in the "big room" and i felt trapped. The pastor started in with the prayer that one could repeat if one needed to be cleased from all unrighteousness in order to worthily partake in this most sacred ritual. seriously off base here...
This is stuff that men of faith started revolutions over... new language has been formed, new movements were established over the misuse of the sacraments.
we were not invited to the table... Jesus' presence was not recognized by the administrator... the hurting were not restored... the broken were not offered healing... new life was not offered to those who needed Grace. As sad as it may seem... Christ seemed to be very far from our act of "rememberance."